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Issue 19 – August 2014 Issue 19 August 2014 The Recusant An unofficial SSPX newsletter, fighting a guerrilla war for the soul of Tradition. “You know that there are certain people who call themselves, how are they called, Resistance? I wish I would know what they resist! . You find modernism, you find heresies, I don’t say in the Council itself, but in what is said, what is spread in the name of the Council today, you have heresies.” - Bishop Fellay, April 2014 “Holy abandonment is found ‘not in resignation FROM THE DESK OF Inside: THE EDITOR: and laziness but at the heart of action and initia- Dear Reader, tive.’ It would be dishonest to pray for victory without really fighting for it. [...] ‘The things I pray Little Catechism on The summer brings both good news and bad Sedevacantism news, and it is to both of these that I wish to for’, St. Thomas More prayed magnanimously, (Avrillé Dominicans) dwell for a moment. ‘dear Lord, give me the grace to work for.’” The good news concerns the resistance in France. Long Live Emperor (“The Biography of Marcel Lefebvre” p. 568) Originally the idea of the prior of Santa Cruz Nullaparte! Monastery in Brazil, Dom Tomas Aquinas OSB, (Fr. Chazal) and Fr. Pfeiffer, a meeting of Resistance priests was hosted on July 13th-14th by the Dominican The Fall and Drift priory of La Haye aux Bonshommes, Avrillé, of Le Barroux France. Although principally intended as a meet- Contact us: ing for French priests, since no country or district (Pere Bruno, OSB) can ever consider itself completely isolated from or unconcerned with its neighbours, and since the [email protected] SSPX Watch! Resistance of its very nature has an undeniably www.TheRecusant.com international character, just like the SSPX always used to have, so it is pleasing to note that there were several visitors from overseas who were able to be present at these important proceedings, priests such as Fr. Pfeiffer, Fr. Hewko, Fr. Fuchs and Fr. Trincado. The main thing to come out of this meeting was the constituting of the French resistance clergy into a “Society of Marcel Lefebvre,” which seems to be something similar to the www.TheRecusant.com www.TheRecusant.com Page 2 Editorial SSPX Watch Page 31 “Society of St. John Vianney” which once fought along side the SSPX in Campos, Brazil (before they ‘jumped the gun,’ selling-out to modernist Rome before Bishop Fellay was SSPX - building bridges using the 1983 Code of Canon Law - via Fr. Chazal ready!) The principle object of the comes the news that Fr. Angles openly admits to deliberately getting the SSPX to move meeting can thus be considered as over to using the new Code of Canon law. Fr. Angles supposedly is quite unabashed about broadly having been achieved, namely this, admitting that although he prefers the new code, his main motive is “so as to build to establish the Resistance in France, bridges between us and the official [i.e. conciliar] church.” by getting the SSPX using the something which had nonetheless still same code as modern Rome, thus eliminating at least one of the differences between not properly been begun, despite the modern Rome and the SSPX. Marriage cases in particular, we are told, are now done presence of three persecuted former- exclusively according to the new code (marriage is precisely one of the areas where the SSPX priests (Frs. Pinaud, Rioult and new code is most at odds with Catholic teaching!) Salenave) for more than a year now. Astute readers will recall that the official position of the SSPX for the last two years (since Besides the Dominicans themselves, April 2012) has been one of complete and unqualified acceptance of the 1983 code of can- there are now a good half-dozen priests on law. That remains the case today, without a word of protest. in France itself (perhaps more?) who have left the SSPX and can in that sense be considered “fully Resistance”. It is to be hoped that we will soon see a good dozen or more Resistance “The train is leaving for Rome, and those who want to get off will get off.” Mass centres springing up all around France. When one considers the thirty-or-more Re- - Fr. Nely, 2nd Assistant (cf. Eleison Comments No.367) sistance Mass centres in North America alone (not to mention a seminary, of course!) which are serviced in the main by just two priests, Fr. Pfeiffer and Fr. Hewko, with some extra help (Fr. Voigt, Fr. Girouard, Fr. Chazal, on his occasional short visits...) So far there have been N.B. - New Website for no French Resistance Mass centres publicly known about, or if any existed the information Our Lady of Mount Carmel Seminary: about its address and location was difficult to come by. Since the setting up of the website “France Fidele”, there is now a grand total of one (1) Resistance Mass listed on its “Centres olmcs.jimdo.com de Messe” page at the time of writing. We must hope and pray that this changes fast. As has been mentioned in the past, one of the differences between the Resistance and the Other Useful Websites: slowly unravelling neo-SSPX is the Apostolic spirit, the Apostolicity. How is it then that there could be priests resist Menzingen’s modernism and who leave the neo-SSPX who are in www.inthissignyoushallconquer.com any way less than apostolic? There may be various possible contributing factors, and it may be that each case is different, but from what I have been able to observe of the SSPX and the www.ecclesiamilitans.com Resistance in this last year there seems to be one deciding factor, and it is a subject which www.truetrad.com must be dealt with as something which threatens to undermine the spirit and raison-d'être of the Resistance. I am speaking of sedevacantism. I use the word “sedevacantism” here as it is www.sacrificium.org commonly understood, to represent an idea, not especially to represent any one group who www.archbishoplefebvre.com espouse it. Readers may recall a previous editorial asking where the sedevacantist soup kitchens are to be found - one thing I find most worrying about sedevacantism is that some- www.resistere.org how it always seems to lead to a diminution of the apostolic spirit. Real life events appear to bear this out. filiimariae.over-blog.com (French) Let us take the German speaking countries as an example. In this part of the world, similarly to in France, there are at least six priests who have left the SSPX since 2012 for what appear nonpossumus-vcr.blogspot.co.uk (Spanish) to be the right reasons. And yet how many Mass centres are there, between these six priests? How many groups of faithful? Where is the growth of people being woken up and encouraged www.beneditinos.org.br to join together and act? Make no mistake, there is a growth of the Resistance, there are Mass (Portugese) centres, there are groups of faithful. Munich (Germany), Aigen (Austria) and Budapest (Hungary) in particular come to mind. And they are all ministered to by Fr. Fuchs - when he rexcz.blogspot.cz is not also visiting other places (England, Scotland, Czech Republic...) - the one priest who (Czech) insists that he will not entertain a sedevacantist stance as he sees it as a deviation and www.TheRecusant.com www.TheRecusant.com Page 30 SSPX Watch Editorial Page 3 Rosary Crusade - “Tractor Production Up Again! For the fifth year running!” distraction from the line of Archbishop Lefebvre which he intends to follow faithfully. The Far be it from us (or anyone!) to even hint at creative accounting (wasn’t Bishop other priests (with the possible exception of Fr. Sauer, who is fairly advanced in age) are all Fellay the Bursar General for many years?) But going by the official totals turned in, in the to varying degrees sedevacantist. The most “Hard-line” and “dogmatic” of them gave over a majority of countries (two thirds) the numbers (monthly average) have noticeably fallen whole issue of his chapel’s little newsletter to an article attacking what he called the since last time (2012) (The picture is even worse if one compares the figures with those of “Erroneous Declaration” of 1974. If only Archbishop Lefebvre had had the wisdom of this the last-but-one crusade in 2010). And that, even after all the shameless ecu-Trad appeals to one sedevacantist priest, he might have seen the error of his ways, since after all, sede- get as many Ecclesia Dei people as possible to participate, and the fact that at least four vacantism is the only truth which matters and outside of it error and downfall are inevita- different sets of intentions were being prayed in different parts of the world! ble. Incidentally, that little chapel for which the newsletter is written is the only place where Several questions remain: When will the curse of the Rosary Crusade fall? What this priest says Mass. form will it take? And when will Fr. Morgan (and many others) have the courage and Nonetheless, with the faithful in that part of the world we thank God that there is one priest integrity to admit that these rosary crusades have been used in a way that is grossly in the form of Fr. Fuchs who follows the path of Archbishop Lefebvre conscientiously, who offensive to heaven and that the real “official” intentions of this last one were so deeply is determined to alter nothing of what he has received from him and who will not allow him- unsound that no Catholic should have been encouraged to participate in them? In the British self to indulge his own fancies or proclivities at the expense of the faithful or use his depar- District newsletter we observe the following sleight of hand: ture from the SSPX as an excuse to make further uncalled-for changes.
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